viands

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The viands at her table are perfectly served and chosen, though the wines, for which she cares little and which are selected by her butler, are less choice—according to the cigar-smoking gentlemen.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 1929

"I did not buy a turkey for Thanksgiving," said Amy Garvey, "but if I can reflect on having my husband back, that will be much better than choice viands."

From Time Magazine Archive

Argosies of viands and wines were lightered in and unloaded while the white-hulled honeymoon yacht creaked at her quay.

From Time Magazine Archive

He loves nothing quite so much as supping in state at a Cardinal's Palace with twinkling candles on the table and viands of the best.

From Time Magazine Archive

My mother carried the brown package to a clearing where several men, women and children sat underneath a blazing sun; some rested, tired from digging; others munched hungrily at dug-up sandwiches and other viands.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane